Editorial by Fayetteville Observer, March 9, 2014. With one vote Thursday, the N.C. Board of Education ensured that thousands of third-graders can advance without having to attend summer reading camps... Read More
Editorial by Charlotte Observer, March 9, 2014. N.C. lawmakers haven’t listened much to educators as they’ve crafted poorly thought out changes affecting public schools and teachers. Maybe they... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, March 4, 2014. North Carolina’s metro mayors heard a sobering report when they met in Charlotte last week. Poverty is a bigger problem for them than it is for... Read More
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again,” wrote the author of the Book of Ecclesiastes. “There is nothing new under the sun.” More than two millennia later, Karl Marx... Read More
Out of power and embroiled in turmoil once again, the state Democratic Party is seeking to fill a leadership void this weekend as it struggles to remain influential in a key election year. The party... Read More
Fair warning: I may be about to bore you to distraction.Is there any more potent political issue in North Carolina than education? Probably not. As allies of the teachers union, Democrats hope to ride... Read More
Back in 2000 or 2001, a state legislator named Art Pope was waiving around a list in a House committee meeting, demanding that the Democrats in charge take note. The list contained expenses paid by... Read More
Editorial by Greensboro News-Record, March 9, 2014. Gov. Pat McCrory is coming around on coal ash ponds. Unfortunately, it took a major spill into the Dan River to demonstrate the problem and prompt... Read More
Is higher education actually making inequality worse? When the GI Bill of Rights of 1944 made colleges accessible to veterans regardless of socioeconomic background, Robert Maynard Hutchins, the... Read More
With two weeks left to enroll in health insurance for 2014 through the Affordable Care Act, tens of thousands of uninsured residents in North Carolina could face penalties if they don’t meet the... Read More
